You take the wrong lessons from history and get some facts wrong.
A lot of kids support Hamas because they learned in school and on TikTok that Israel is a white, colonialist, bloodthirsty power that subjugates the poor, innocent Palestinians in open air prison and commits constant crimes against humanity, especially genocide. That the only tiny bit of truth in this narrative is the light skin of many Jews doesn't matter in the face of terrible education. But then remember, it's Baby Boomers and Gen Xers who came up with and taught them all these lies. Every generation has its share of stupid and evil.
I know there is a media narrative that kids are being taught this or that terrible thing in school, but while there have been a few examples to support the claims, most of the time kids get nothing. Most Millennials and Gen Z got very little education on the Holocaust in school and they got little in school.
What they do know about the Holocaust was often crafted by outside forces who told them a narrative they wanted to infuse into the population. Russia especially wants to sow maximum conflict in western countries. They have been doing it since the middle of last decade.
As recently as 10 or 15 years ago the vast majority of Americans didn't really care one way or the other about whether someone was Jewish or not. I had a friend who I have lost track of now who was married to an Israeli immigrant for a while. They lived in Dallas, Texas and found even there in the South that if people had any reaction to his being Israeli, it was just curiosity.
He told one anecdote about when his parents visited. They went out to eat and the waitress noticed the accent and asked where they were from. His parents went stiff, but when the waitress was told by my friend that they were from Israel, the only response was "that's cool" and she moved on to the next table. They were shocked she didn't really care they were from Israel.
In any movement there are the hard core believers and then there are people who have much softer feelings about the cause, but are going along with it because the herd seems to be moving in that direction. Bad actors like the social media manipulators from Russia play on this herd instinct to convince people the herd is moving in the direction they want, and it tends to happen.
Change the herd narrative and only the hard core believers will be left. That was the situation about antisemitism 15 years ago.
Israel doesn't look like apartheid on any level unless you're looking through hate-colored glasses or just want to redefine words 1984 style. Israel has Muslim, Arab, and Druse leaders in government. Every citizen has the right to vote. Israel GTFO of Gaza 18 years ago, and then spent their following 18 years defending themselves from Palestinian violence. This didn't start with Hamas. The Gaza population boomed, and billions flowed into that cesspool. The denizens still spent constant effort trying to kill Jews. Shrug.
Most Palestinians live in the West Bank or Gaza which are communities that are much poorer than the rest of Israel. These communities are controlled by Israel, though they also have local Palestinian governments. The voice of these people in the Israeli government is limited.
For a Palestinian to leave one of these areas and enter Israel proper they need to endure long lines at check points and go through extensive security. Many of these people have low paying jobs in Israel and have to enure the time suck and humiliation every day just to earn a living.
Black people in South Africa who lived through Apartheid would probably recognize a lot of these things. The white SA government was straight up racist and were keeping the black South Africans as real, legal second class citizens. The Israelis are doing this because the Palestinian population has bred a large number of terrorists and they are trying to prevent the next terrorist attack.
As I said the reasons are different, but on the surface there are a lot of similarities.
The numbers game is simply Hamas propaganda picked up as the dominant narrative. It's an eye-for-an-eye argument, wanting more blind Jews. It's so nice that you feel Jews have a right to self defense. Thanks. We were waiting for your permission to defend ourselves.
No need to be snarky. I was not giving anyone permission to do anything. People are going to do what they are going to do.
The terrorists on the far left and far right both agree that they want a worldwide race war, as for some reason they believe this will lead to a better world, be it a Marxist paradise or a caliphate. Not much difference, frankly, and a lot of the terror groups are also Marxist or communist or something in between. Not much difference, really.
I don't see anything about race wars on the left. There are people on the far right who want race wars.
Things went so poorly in Afghanistan because of terrible decision making on the part of Bush Jr, Cheney, and their ilk. They went in without a plan then tried to figure it out as they went. By the time Obama rolled in, the country was long past unsaveable. The moment Obama killed Osama, we should have GTFO. Biden's ballsiest and best move of his presidency was to get us the hell out of that cesspool. It maybe could have been done better, but sometimes you just gotta get the job done.
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I thought the US actions post 9/11 were incredibly stupid and said so at the time. The US should have pulled the plug on Afghanistan a long time before it did. By the time Osama bin Laden was killed, al Qaeda was badly weakened, even if the US hadn't killed bin Laden the organization probably would have continued to weaken.
